Basel Adra

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Basel Adra is a Palestinian film director, lawyer and journalist. He has documented attempts by the Israel Defense Forces to expel Palestinian villagers from the occupied West Bank and the violence committed by Israeli settlers. Adra co-wrote and co-directed the 2024 documentary film No Other Land with Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham and activists Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor. The film captures the plight of the besieged community of Masafer Yatta, where Adra was raised, showing Israeli forces demolishing homes and forcibly removing families who have lived there for generations, claiming the land for military training purposes. It premiered at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival and won the Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary Film and the Berlinale Documentary Film Award. In 2025, the film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film, making Adra the first Palestinian filmmaker to win an Oscar. Read more

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